Wind farms can be deployed at large scale when we need them: now.
Science leaves no doubt: Global emissions need to peak and begin to decline before 2020, and a dramatic increase in renewable energy deployment is urgently required to help make this happen. While building a conventional power plant can take 10 or 12 years or more, a large wind farm can be put up in a matter of months, and a half completed wind farm is just a smaller power plant, starting to generate power as soon as the first turbines are connected to the grid.